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    David Gardner

    Former International Affairs Editor

    David Gardner was international affairs editor at the FT, which he joined in 1978. He was also chief leader writer, Middle East editor, and an FT correspondent in Europe, Latin America and South Asia. 

    He wrote columns, commentary and analysis, mainly on the Middle East.

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    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Martin Wolf
      In celebration of David Gardner

      An address for our FT colleague at his memorial service

      David Gardner
    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Obituary
      David Gardner, FT journalist, 1952-2022

      The Middle East expert was a writer of passion and integrity, renowned for his lucid prose during his 44 years on the paper

      David Gardner:  his vision was unusually steady and his analysis unfailingly reliable
    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran’s enemies in the Middle East are closing ranks

      Possibility of the US removing Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard from its foreign terrorist list is causing alarm in the region

      Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade in Tehran
    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Mistrust between the US and the Gulf underscores the need to reset relations

      Arab regimes are disgruntled, Biden has been snubbed and Putin’s war on Ukraine is causing friction

      In the UN Security Council, the UAE abstained alongside China and India on the resolution denouncing the invasion that Russia vetoed
    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      Iran nuclear deal
      Russia is close to sabotaging the Iran nuclear deal

      Difficult talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 international accord have become tangled in the war in Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Middle Eastern powers must review their allegiances in light of Ukraine conflict

      As hostilities increase, it will be harder for countries such as Turkey to sit on the fence

      Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Russia’s Vladimir Putin
    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      Riad Salameh
      All eyes are on Lebanon’s top banker as the country slides deeper into financial peril

      Riad Salameh has so far eluded the justice system at home, but European investigators are tightening the noose

      Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon’s central bank
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Pragmatism changes the dialogue in the Middle East

      Tentative signs of previously unlikely partnerships emerge in trade, investment and diplomacy

      Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq about 60km southwest of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province
    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
      History may finally come knocking for Erdogan

      Economic woes boost hopes for Turkey’s opposition to oust the country’s long-serving strongman president

      Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s failure to defend the lira leaves investors wondering whether Turkey will be able to service its debts
    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Missile attack on UAE shows Iran is unwilling to compromise

      Tehran, boosted in confidence by China, is using Yemen to pursue its own agenda on Israel

      Israel’s president Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on Monday
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saad Hariri’s retreat leaves a vacuum in Lebanon

      The country is in economic meltdown, facing a ‘deliberate depression’ manufactured by warlords

      Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri speaks during a news conference at his home in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday
    • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Attack on Abu Dhabi risks upsetting a cautious detente in the Gulf

      The drone hit shows how Yemen is starting to resemble Syria as a conflict able to radiate mayhem beyond its borders

      A tower damaged in the attack on Saudi oil facilities in 2019 . The difference with the UAE strike is that whoever did it was aiming off: a shot across the bows
    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      Beirut
      Jackals prowl the hills above the new US mega-embassy in Lebanon

      The population is drifting away from crisis-hit Beirut, but America persists with its giant construction project

      A photo of a golden jackal prowling the foothills of Mount Lebanon. They may have returned because they see so little light and there is plentiful scavenging
    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Iran nuclear deal
      Nuclear negotiators in Vienna face struggle to resurrect Iran deal

      Iranians across the spectrum came to regard the 2015 non-proliferation agreement as a swindle

      Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani arrives for a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna, Austria
    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      Bashar al-Assad
      Arab leaders weigh normalising relations with Syria’s president

      Bashar al-Assad is slowly being brought back into regional diplomatic society

      People in Damascus walk past a poster of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. There is speculation Assad may be distancing himself from Iran, but that alliance will not change
    • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
      Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
      Muammer Gaddafi’s son returns to the political stage

      Many Libyans may now wonder: to what conceivable question could Saif al-Islam be the answer?

      Saif al-Islam was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death in Tripoli in 2015 and is still pursued for the same reason by the International Criminal Court at The Hague
    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      Iraq
      The future of Iraq is in the balance

      An assassination attempt on the country’s prime minister has raised fresh questions about militias backed by Iran

      Moqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shia cleric, came first in Iraqi elections last month
    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      Lebanon
      Rich Gulf patrons turn the screws on a bankrupt Lebanon

      Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies are losing patience with a state under the shadow of Iran and Hizbollah

      A portrait of Lebanese information minister George Kordahi on a billboard in the Yemeni capital Sanaa
    • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
      Turkish politics
      Erdogan’s wrath is damaging Turkey

      Turkish president’s persecution of Osman Kavala is personal

      Recep Tayyip Erdogan: those who see all this as the president marshalling his coalition of neo-Islamists and ultranationalists to distract from economic woes are only partially right
    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
      Lebanon
      Violence accelerates Lebanon’s descent into state failure

      Clashes in Beirut bode ill for a country where Iran-backed Hizbollah flexes its muscles

      Hizbollah and Amal fighters take aim during clashes in Beirut recently, sparked by the Shia groups’ opposition to the investigation into last year’s port blast
    • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
      Iraq
      To govern Iraq effectively, Moqtada al-Sadr must abandon factionalism

      Sectarian politics have blighted the country, leaving voters disillusioned with their leaders

    • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
      Turkish politics
      Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his match in Biden and Putin

      The Turkish ruler’s strongman tactics fail to work on the US and Russia

      Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan
    • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Autocracy has filled the ideological vacuum in the Middle East

      Even Tunisia, once the cradle of democratic hope in the region, is moving towards one-man rule

      Kais Saied reacts after exit poll results were announced in a second round runoff of the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia, in 2019
    • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Behind the smiles, competition heats up in the Gulf

      Aggressive moves by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar to boost their economies could be a zero-sum game

      Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan, national security adviser for the UAE
    • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
      Beirut
      Shifting geopolitics offer glimmer of hope for Lebanon’s new government

      The US withdrawal from the region could defuse the rivalries that have played out in the bankrupt state

      Members of the new Lebanese government — headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati — pose for a picture at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon
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